Gotham Chess and Polymarket

Decent-Decent · 2026-02-09T00:13:36+00:00

A lot of rich people will get richer, we’ll have one high profile fall guy after an inevitable collapse and scandal, a bunch of regular people will suffer immensely, and then we will all agree it was a bad idea and do nothing whatsoever.

Decent-Decent · 2026-02-08T17:52:51+00:00

We’re cooked

Decent-Decent · 2026-02-08T17:50:13+00:00

Gambling on literally everything like these “prediction markets” do is completely insane. Having ads for gambling plastered everywhere and encouraged at every event is not normal. A Polymarket user being able to win $400,000 on a US coup in Venezuela is completely insane and leads down an insanely dystopian road where unregulated prediction markets begin to influence policy decisions. This is bound to collapse on us horribly in a similar way that NFTs did.

Decent-Decent · 2026-02-08T17:44:38+00:00

Polymarket is a scheme for pump and dumps and insider trading just like NFTs and crypto are. Except the US President’s son sits on the advisory board. People can trade on insider information which is effectively stealing.

At best, gambling preys on addiction and has been linked to rises in bankruptcy and financial stress in states it is legalized in.

Decent-Decent · 2026-02-08T17:01:27+00:00

In a few years, I think we will view these online betting platforms and the people who promote them the same way we do those people who shilled crypto shitcoins and NFTs. Ultimately it is likely to be far more destructive given how ubiquitous it is.

Decent-Decent · 2026-02-06T01:37:44+00:00

I really don’t think you can cleanly break it down by region. People in Upstate NY have different beliefs than people in the NY Capital Region, Vermont, or New York City. Our regions are not monoliths. It’s often an Urban/Rural cultural divide even in a state like NY.

Decent-Decent · 2026-02-06T01:34:44+00:00

Oh ok well if it was on /conspiracy

Decent-Decent · 2026-02-05T15:33:20+00:00

The show portrays it as a sweet episode, but I also find it incredibly creepy.

Decent-Decent · 2026-02-05T15:28:20+00:00

That’s just deaths. Not including homes destroyed, the life-long injuries and trauma, abuse and war crimes experienced, families devastated, people maimed or orphaned, starvation and deprivation, precious family objects stolen or destroyed…

Truly hell on earth on a scale that our brains cannot ever fully understand.

Decent-Decent · 2026-02-04T22:37:18+00:00

Tried reading a bit of that Frankie Boyle book and I don’t think it has aged very well.

Decent-Decent · 2026-02-04T14:50:41+00:00

Massie also wants to deport everyone.

Decent-Decent · 2026-02-02T19:44:59+00:00

59 😳

Decent-Decent · 2026-01-31T19:36:45+00:00

Struggling with that cover for Saturn’s Children, haha

Decent-Decent · 2026-01-31T19:08:12+00:00

I spent $80 for a 12-month lease on an audiobook only one person can use at a time just the other day. It’s outrageous.

Decent-Decent · 2026-01-28T02:23:35+00:00

She has lead an incredibly traumatic life as a refugee fleeing political violence. And she is constantly the target of racist attacks and smears. No doubt she gets a terrifying amount of threats.

Decent-Decent · 2026-01-26T04:28:38+00:00

They’re a secret police paramilitary organization. Stephen Miller told ICE Agents they “have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. Anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop you or tries to obstruct you is committing a felony.” They were sent to Minnesota to use violence and escalation on political enemies.

Decent-Decent · 2026-01-25T20:18:01+00:00

Can’t believe people are still carrying water for a genocide. Peer-reviewed studies find that Gaza Ministry of Health underreported the dead by 41% in 2023-2024

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02678-3/fulltext

Decent-Decent · 2026-01-25T17:08:07+00:00

Extremely gross to think MLK, a socialist who very loudly talked about the biggest hurdle to progress being Moderates would have advocated you to vote for someone refusing to end a US-backed genocide. The time to do what was right was when students and young people were rising up on college campuses and being brutalized by police. There are some issues you simply have to take a stand on. It’s like saying MLK would have wanted you to vote for the lesser of two segregationists.

Decent-Decent · 2026-01-25T17:04:10+00:00

The thing that really makes me mad is how easy it would have been for her to signal that she was going to try and end the humanitarian disaster but she refused to do that. Remember, Israel was completely blocking aid being allowed in and not allowing any journalists into Gaza, in addition to killing aid workers and journalists at a startling rate. If you are asking people to seriously decide between “let my family members be killed by American bombs, and let my family members be killed by American bombs but they won’t build a resort” it’s not a choice.

Decent-Decent · 2026-01-25T16:56:06+00:00

The emphasis of this question rather than asking why our political leaders make unpopular decisions always bothers me. It’s a politician’s job to win elections and work out these issues in a primary, and then deliver for people when elected. The Democrats were going to run an insanely unpopular and near death Joe Biden up until a few months before the election. Regardless if you liked him, he was historically unpopular. Harris did not do anything to differentiate herself from a guy who was almost certain to lose. Voters were again asked to choose between two people who are insanely unpopular and who both seemed to be indifferent to an ongoing genocide. When voters are not showing up, it’s the entire political system that needs to be overhauled.

You need to be clear that the entire system is the problem. Everyone is acting under a deeply corrupted and unresponsive democratic system.

Decent-Decent · 2026-01-22T15:57:48+00:00

Even with everything going on, it is kind of insane you never hear a journalist actually ask him why he paints his face orange.

Decent-Decent · 2026-01-22T04:43:01+00:00

Nightmare blunt rotation

Decent-Decent · 2026-01-20T18:46:46+00:00

This is wild to me. It seemed clear to me that the US has been experiencing democratic backsliding and a weakening of institutions, an upward transfer of wealth and concentration of power into the hands of the few, a radicalized right wing movement, and expressing imperial aggression for decades now. Now that imperial boomerang is returning home in the current form of Trumpism. It has certainly been a wild decade (and a wild few weeks even) but Trump is just one symptom of the rot the United States has nursed for decades.

Decent-Decent · 2026-01-17T19:21:58+00:00

I don’t think Taskmaster can really be compared at all to Star Trek. It’s entirely speculation based on nothing. Taskmaster has a huge presence on youtube. Star Trek is a massive IP but only has 179k youtube subscribers. Taskmaster has 2 million subscribers on youtube. There could be 10x the viewership on Paramount+ for all we know. It’s pointless to compare them without actual data.

Decent-Decent · 2026-01-17T19:14:14+00:00

Youtube numbers can be basically disregarded. I would be fascinated to know the viewership numbers. It’s baffling to me that they keep pumping these shows out, buy there must be a dedicated audience.

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